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Cake day: February 4th, 2024

  • What you are referring to are the window decorations.

    Apart from Linux Mint, Firefox almost always uses client-side decorations. What you are showing here is still client-side.

    It is just that Mozilla recently enabled vertical tabs option for everyone, so the top bar is now slightly smaller than before. You can disable vertical tabs easily by searching in the settings.



  • You need a direct line of sight with satellites for GPS to work.

    Of course, this is almost impossible indoors. Here’s how network location works to my understanding:

    Another person outdoors uses GPS to locate themselves. This person has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled and their device can see your home/office network. Google and Apple save this information to their databases. When you request your location indoors, your device sends Wi-Fi information of nearby access points. The servers know approximate location of this Wi-Fi network and can give you your approximate location, though with a large margin of error.


  • The thing that help you navigate inside buildings is called “Network Location”.

    Google and Apple provide this functionality by collecting Wi-Fi and Bluetooth network data from all their users and creating a massive database.

    By default, “Network Location” is disabled in GrapheneOS. If you have Google Play Services installed, you can use Google’s Network Location service by enabling those options.

    Fortunately, GrapheneOS provides an alternative using Apple’s network location services. There is an option to use GrapheneOS proxy server instead of connecting directly to Apple. Of course, whether you use this feature should entirely depend on how much you trust GrapheneOS developers. This one works using just Wi-Fi data and I use it daily.





  • Fedora uses RPM packaging format and dnf is just a front-end for that. Atomic variants of Fedora and uBlue distros (they are based on the former) use rpm-ostree, which also works with RPM.

    Also, please stop being so confident in your stance when you don’t know much about Linux or your distribution of choice. People are here to help you only out of kindness and not obligation.






  • It is great. I have been using Linux for about three years and majority of that was with KDE Plasma and its Wayland session. Most of that time was with Arch and Fedora and it was all smooth sailing.

    It was faster and smoother than GNOME Shell, Cinnamon or any other desktop I have tried.

    It may have slightly more bugs compared to GNOME Shell due to sheer amount of features it has.

    As others have mentioned, you might have a hardware issue that coincidentally pops up with Plasma.






    • dnf-automatic looks a like a package designed for non-Atomic versions of Fedora.
    • libreoffice is available as a flatpak. You should avoid layering packages as much as possible.
    • A VPN app makes sense to have layered. I assume it comes from a third-party repository added to /etc/yum.repos.d. It is possible this package does not support Fedora 42 yet. You can try removing it to see if the update succeeds.
    • rpmfusion is a repository providing packages that often cannot be pre-installed due to some legal reasons. Unless you need/installed a package from there, uninstall it.


  • Flatpak applications run in a sandboxed environment with limited permissions. Steam, being a proprietary app, was never made with flatpak sandboxing in mind, so you need to poke holes in it’s sandbox for it if you want it to see your files. Most people do not store their games in a separate location, so the default is pretty constrained.

    Applications can have sandbox holes by default. Just checked Heroic’s permissions and it can see flatpak Steam’s directories. I don’t know what might have went wrong for you.